Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #4 – Yoga in Lithuania with Ruta Keriane

Welcome to Episode #4 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Ruta Keriane onto the show. She is a yoga teacher and yoga studio owner from Lithuania. 

I met Ruta Keriane in Rishikesh in the summer of 2019 at Punyah Yoga. I was taking an Ashtanga Alignment and Adjustment course at Punyah Yoga while Ruta was taking her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training course there as well. When I met Ruta I was amazed. I mean, really and truly amazed. She’s this driven, dynamic 42 year old woman who has two children in their early twenties and she’s never tried yoga before and she is here in India wanting to become a yoga teacher? What!?

What’s even more impressive? Within just a couple months of getting back to Lithuania, she opened up her own studio there. That’s right. This brand new yoga student turned yoga teacher became a studio owner all in the matter of a few months. 

Once Ruta knew her path, she wasted no time getting started.

Tell me more about Ruta…

Ruta Keriane is from Lithuania, from a small town called Mazeikiai. She is 44 years old and is mother of two sons who are 24 and 22 years old. Married for 26 years with a Bachelor in law and a Master in business management, Ruta has mostly worked as a commercial and project manager. She is an Ashtanga yoga teacher who opened her own yoga studio, So Hum, and was running it for 1.5 years before moving to Scotland for a year-long business contract. 

What to expect in Episode #4 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast: Yoga in Lithuania

In this episode, Ruta opens up about about her yoga journey in a raw and no-nonsense kind of way. She sets aside her defenses and has a truly authentic conversation with me about what happened when she embraced “the flow” and opened up to all the possibilities around her. She had to tune out all the expectations and opinions of others and tap into her own feelings. “All around people think they know better than you, and of course, better than your heart.” As Ruta conveys, it’s not about knowing; it’s about feeling. Ruta talks about muting your mind, and the pressures of perfectionism, and what it’s like to teach as a new yoga teacher in Lithuania. She refused to compromise the methods and style of yoga she learned in India according to her students requests for shorter classes, no mantras, or any other adaptations to make it more “culturally comfortable” for them. Ruta was firm. She brought yoga to Lithuania from the root source of yoga itself— from India. Tune in to our conversation and be prepared to have something come alive inside of you, this is one beautiful conversation packed with wise words and powerful perspectives. Let’s go!

For the skimmers – What’s in the Yoga in Lithuania episode?

• What happens when one door closes and the whole world opens
• The passion test and Ruta’s results
• The power of living in the flow
• Stop knowing – muting your mind
• The pressures of perfectionism
• Everyone can be a teacher because what you teach is what you experience in your life
• Yoga as a comparison of life and the mat
• It’s not yoga practice, yoga is life
• Not calling your students, students 
• Yoga as it teaches you to know yourself, love yourself, and stop changing yourself 
• What opening a yoga studio in a small village in Lithuania is like and how Ruta strives to teach the most authentic yoga as possible

Favorite Quote from Ruta Keriane

“To listen more to be more attentive to inside of you, to the real you, to mute the mind, because many people have many situations when the flow takes them but they resist too much, and this was the main lesson I wanted to learn with yoga.”

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #4 – Yoga in Lithuania with Ruta Keriane

Lily: 00:00:05

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. I’m your host, Lily Allen Duenas. Together we’ll talk about the world of yoga and we’ll talk to people from around the world. Join us for authentic conversations about the global yoga ecosystem, and we’ll cover yoga philosophies and methodologies, along the way. Inhale, exhale, we’re about to dive in. 

 

Lily: 00:00:41

Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. I’m here today with Ruta Keriane and she is from Lithuania. She actually has her own Yoga Studio in a small town in Lithuania, called Mazeikiai and has a population, she said, of about 20,000 people. The name of her studio is So Home and I first met Ruta at Punyah Yoga at Rishikesh in the summer or spring of 2019. I was doing an Ashtanga alignment and adjustment course and Ruta was getting her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification. And what I was so impressed with Ruta is that she started doing yoga, and then immediately got trained in a very short time, and then she immediately opened a yoga studio. I just thought that was so incredible and bold and brave, and she is definitely a tenacious practitioner, and I’m so excited to welcome her here onto the podcast today. Thank you Ruta for being with us.

 

Rita: 00:01:48

Thank you Lily for inviting me.

 

How did you get started doing yoga, what first attracted you to the practice?

 

 

Lily: 00:01:52

I’m so happy we’re doing this. So I would love to hear and just for starters, how did you get started doing yoga, what first attracted you to the practice?

 

Rita: 00:02:03

Actually all my experience, I call this the flow, like everything in yoga, is just flow. So, everything started accidentally, actually. So, I was working in a big oil refinery, as a manager for many years, for 25 years, and I was doing the job. I was not happy, but there was so much fear of losing my work and I was dreaming that someone could kick me off it, because I’m scared to do the test myself. And you know, it’s the law of attraction at work. Yoga is not for everyone. So I was thinking about that, and it happened, they just asked me to leave the company without any reason, without any explanation, they said, well thank you, and we don’t need you anymore. And my reaction was, “Wow, I was dreaming about that”, and it was so, so fun and so I felt like all doors are open now, only when this one just closed, and I was starting searching for what I’m going to do now. And again, by accident, or not, but at the same time, I had a friend near me. 

A passion test

 

We were not very close but I was following her on Facebook, and she was inspiring me, she was doing a job. She went to Nepal many times. She was a practitioner of meditation, and things like this, and I saw her change her life. She got divorced because she had an unhappy marriage. She started to dance. She went to Cuba, I think, South America, and she learned how to dance, and I was  like, “Wow”, jealous in a good way. I thought she’s free, you know, she’s free. This is the most important, to be free, and do what you love to do. So I called her, and I asked for advice. She said, “Okay, would you like to do a Passion Test?” I said, “Yes. Of course!” I want and like to do everything that could help me to find my new way.And we did this passion test. It’s a long story, you know, a lot of methodology to go through. But the most important outcome that I got — I’ve got a completely different approach. The Passion Test shows you the passion of your heart. 

 

Actually, you may think that you want one thing in your life, but your heart knows what you want. And this test helps you to discover it, to pull it out of your heart. But the first three were very surprising. I was never even thinking in my mind about this. And the very first, the strongest passion was to travel alone, and telling you word by word to travel alone in Asia or somewhere in the East, with the aim to find myself, to find the way to discover life. Okay, and the second wish was to create a blog and write. I love writing, and I wished to write something somewhere. And the third one was to go and work with my husband together, somewhere abroad. So, but, you know, after I found this, the most important, the main passion, I forgot about all the others. So, I concentrated on this that I want to travel alone or solo to Asia, to somewhere and find something. 

 

You know all around people, they think they know better than you. And of course, better than your heart. So, everyone started to give me advice. Okay, you’re doing sports, so go somewhere alone, like Spain. Go buy a bicycle or hiking or something but be very physically active. But I said no, you know, I somehow don’t feel I want to do this, I want something deeper, something for my soul, not for my body anymore. I said no, okay, that I don’t have to search and listen to other people. I have to find it in my heart. I put in Google “follow spiritual”, and so many links with the word yoga appeared on the screen. And I never did yoga before. Actually I did once, I got trauma. And I stopped forever, I thought, it never will be for me. But here, on the first page of Google, I see Yoga Yoga Yoga, India Yoga India. And my heart becomes, you know, crazy, is… I thought my heart would go out through my mouth outside, and all my body was feeling like sensing that this is what you need. And I said, and my mind said “no no no, you remember you went once in the class, and you were complaining that… you know, oh there’s nothing to do it’s just for lazy people, and you just make on the and you finally get trauma because you’re a perfectionist, and if you’re doing candle, you want to do it at once without any breathing without it”. 

 

Deciding to go to Rishikesh to learn yoga

 

So, but, you know, my mind at that time, couldn’t argue with the heart. I felt that it was mine, and I became quiet, and then I started to decide where to go. So, again, I put in the Google yoga studio in Rishikesh. Somehow I also felt like… because my husband was telling me, “Why are you going to Rishikesh? Go to Guam. They’re more starter retreats, and you can just relax there. Why do you want to go and be a teacher? Just go have fun.” I said, “No if you… I have to go to Rishikesh and I have to go for teacher training.” And I found a picture of Ludrikus. Actually, Lily, you also know, Ludrikus from Lithuania. And I didn’t know him at that time, I contacted him I just, I saw that the name of the show name is Lithuanian, and they find him on Facebook, and just message him, “Ludrikus I saw your picture, you went to this yoga school in, in India, would you recommend me this?”, And he answered, “No, don’t go there. Go to Punyah Yoga”, and he gave me the contact for Hermant G. And I emailed him, and we just agreed in a few hours, and my ticket was bought on the same day. So I was waiting for that school without knowing what yoga is, but it just felt that this is my new way, and I’m so happy about that.

 

Lily: 00:10:13

That’s beautiful. I love the whole trajectory the whole journey, your whole story of just kind of saying you embrace the flow, and when a door closed, instead of, you know panicking or spiraling, you just immediately saw it as endless opportunities, and I also really admire Ruta that all the people who were telling you, “Oh you should do this do that do this do that”, you really seemed very strong and able to tune them out, and tune into yourself, that’s no easy task, always. 

 

Ruta: 00:10:49

Yeah. 

 

Feeling called to yoga

 

Lily: 00:10:50

Well, you mentioned that you were traumatized in one yoga class one time and never did it again until you decided you know you felt called to yoga through… Yeah, I loved how you said your heart went to your mouth like you just felt it. You’re supposed to, to do that, that’s what trusts you kind of had you took one class and didn’t like it. How did you know that it was time I mean, was it just that gut reaction?

 

Ruta: 00:11:17

Just feeling, sensing feeling, I didn’t know. Even then, without knowing what it means to mute your mind? It happened, because when you take this flow, everything helps you to be in, without even knowing. Sometimes, you know, we need to grow ourselves to listen more, to be more attentive to inside of you, to the real you, to mute the mind, because many people have many cetaceans when the flow takes them, but they just resist too much. And this is the main lesson I wanted to learn with yoga.

 

Muting your mind

 

Lily: 00:12:09

Is muting your mind, I mean that sounds very, very strong. Just kind of turning it off and grounding down listening to your, your belly and your heart because I do believe we have three senses… senses of perception, three ways that we can see the world or interact with the world. It’s from that kind of belly the internal, you know absorption the knowing the the ego, the sense of eye, then the heart, you know this kind of free flowing, abundance, and the mind with the concentration, the focus, the mental activity. Do you feel like before you were even on the spiritual path before you even learned yoga, I mean, officially, how did you learn, learn about that, or was there a teacher before that a meditation or a spiritual guide I’m curious?

 

Being a perfectionist

 

Ruta: 00:12:59

No, actually, maybe this is why I was very open. And as my teacher Hermant-Ji., he was actually, I was trying to explain to him that you have to teach me everything because I never meditated, I was passionate about learning what is that and how to do this, I never tried. I had no teachers before. I just so dramatically needed to start living. I had a very bad situation with psychological health. I was not depressed but I had a very high level of anxiety. So I was on antidepressants, I was trying to help myself to live, because before that I was too narrow, too strong, too much of a perfectionist. 

 

I had very high requirements for myself, and of course, for my family, for my surroundings, you know, all of them. And it was very difficult for me. So, year by year, I felt like I couldn’t live anymore. I can’t, I don’t want to live anymore, because I was so tired of, you know, being… you know, searching for easier things without letting myself or others, just live just flow to this word flow and this sense, and this experience of flow. 

 

The most important for me, and I received it, and when my teacher asked me, “What style of yoga would you like to learn?” I said, “Well, I don’t know what kind of styles you have”. He said, “Yes we have Ashtanga, we have Hatha”, and I said, “So okay, what, what’s the difference?” “Okay,” he said, “Hatha, it’s like more, not the different sequence so it has some distance rules, but the Ashtanga is very strong, very powerful, very and I am. 

 

Then I’m then…  I forget this word in English… passionate, I’m actually passionate about Ashtanga. I said, “Okay, then I do Ashtanga”, because I want my teacher to be passionate about what he teaches me and he said, “Okay, so how many years you practice yoga, at least, you know, in a day”, and I said, “I don’t know, I never tried”.  And he said, “And you want to become a teacher? You’re, you’re good, you know you’re at the right place and I am so happy to have you, Because, you know, it was not about, you know, creating the ideas of the mind about future jobs, or no, it’s just the flow, I never tried, but I just feel like I have to be”, and whistles you know very funny and very good so I’m started started from that I was not experienced, and I think this helped me a lot because I went, empty, and, you know like, empty, to the right place. When you go to yoga in India, it’s different because, despite never having teachers here in Europe. I felt like they were there, I received more than just yoga, like asanas like we all mostly understand that I received the mindset. For example, staying with the family of my teachers, spending time also helped me, even without prior practice or experience to get deeply into that, and I love it, and it’s changed my life forever.

 

Right student, right teacher, right time

 

Lily: 00:17:33

I’m so happy to hear that and I feel very similarly about yoga in India, it’s a very powerful practice or powerful tradition. And when you go to that root source. There’s so much to learn more than of course, the Asana practice the physical practice and Hermant-Ji. is an amazing teacher and it really sounds like, right student, right teacher, right time, that as the saying goes.

 

Ruta: 00:17:59

Yeah, the flow. 

 

Lily: 00:18:00

The flow, yeah. When you just embrace it and dive in and it sounds, you’re really using your instincts and following your intuition, and I wanted to ask too. Do you consider it part of the flow that you felt called to open a yoga studio within, within or was it a month or two, or a couple months of finishing your training?

Opening a yoga studio immediately after completing a yoga teacher

 

Ruta: 00:18:21

After I came back home from India, it was maybe just a week or two to be ready, because even if it was not an official yoga studio, I opened it in my house. So, I offered three teachings for about four months or so… So I could practice more, you know before I open officially. I was teaching for free, three times a day, five days a week. So, I had a really good chance to practice working with people, with people who were not in India, and, like, they’re not tried most of them live in a small town so we didn’t have any of styles of yoga, or anything similar to that, there was some tries to have yoga, remember that they told you that I had in a trauma, but it was more like, you know, nobody taught us there, to breathe. And this is the first thing you know, everything happens when you breathe. 

 

When you listen to yourself, when you feel yourself. It was more… I don’t know like… physical, physical actions. I don’t know how to call it correctly, but … So I was passionate about having a studio that reflects India. I knew that I’m not experienced, I was just a month, with a little, with the younger me but I didn’t even think that I’m not not enough to be a teacher, because I knew that I was in India, and I took from there so many knowledge, not made the knowledge of Asana, but knowledge of what is yoga, and it was enough to know that everyone can be a teacher, because what you teach it, what you experience in your life. 

 

Yoga is a comparison of life and the mat

 

For me, Yoga is a comparison of life, and the mat. You know, there are so many similarities when you match something, and you feel something, or think something you… Later on you find so many things you do similar, in, in life, in routine life, in your jobs, in your communication, and you do this, parallel. And you know, and this yoga it… it comes not like you’re doing some gym for one hour that you receive at the same time, some physical activities with Ashtanga it’s not even some. It’s a lot, and you receive, you quiet your mind, you spend time with you, you get to know yourself better, and even others, because through yourself, you understand others. So it’s like, it’s like, I don’t know it’s space, you know, in, in the practice in, and, you know, the practice is just part but you do yoga, all day that you know it’s not, it’s not yoga practice, it’s yoga, it’s life, and I even stopped criticize myself that I’m doing wrong. I’m doing, not good enough this. I breathe, and I am learning from that, and happy to recognize. Recognize actions, recognize self, recognize changes, and I feel it’s like life. I live, I’m alive because I can sense, I can feel, I can compare again. You know you love yourself, you love everybody, everything. And it’s amazing, and, you know, your love, generates much more love, and you know all this community of people, of students who came. I never call them students, because we all students, we all teachers, and it was like associated of people who came with open heart to find something, something deeper, something more meaningful. So I’m really happy that, even despite the small town and not many people, but all, everyone who came and stayed. They were so wonderful and now we’re friends. And we are, you know, going for a lunch, at least when I was still staying to the Dania, for lunch, for a tea and with this person, so deep things of learning from each other. And you know, I’m not a teacher, more than any one of my students, teachers are.

 

How did you first kind of attract people to come and practice with you?

 

 

Lily: 00:23:47

How did you find these people to join your classes? When you’re just starting off in your house, you said three classes a day, five days a week. That’s incredible, for any teacher. So it’s a lot of time and energy, but how did you first kind of attract people to come and practice with you?

 

Ruta: 00:24:07

So I have many friends on Facebook, and, you know, all of those friends knew that I was in India. So some of them were already waiting for me to come back and teach them. So, I had no big issue with that, especially this first month. It was three classes, because at least like three, five practices, you need to do to start feeling something different. And later on, this was true, you know, and people were saying that after first practice, many of them felt like, “No, no way, it’s too difficult for me, it’s not for me, I am not flexible, I am not physically strong so I cannot do… no, no ”. Some of them have tried some yoga before, but never Ashtanga. In my small town, I never ever heard about the Ashtanga. So, but again, I was doing a different sport. So I had friends many friends in the in the sports teams we’re all, and like, they, they even more like Ashtanga, so again, we live in some kind of, when my friend tried that they loved the Ashtanga they said, “Oh, I never know that yoga can be so, physically demanding”, or I don’t know how to tell, and some of them complain that, you know, “No I cannot participate in your practices because you saying openings and finishing comanches religion is something”. So they said “Could you please… I would recommend you to stop commanchas, and I guarantee you that you will have more people who will come and stay”. And I said no. “I am here to show you authentic yoga as possible, even me, I’m not that deep, or you know, I was not spending that time, that much time on yoga, so I’m learning together with you. I’m only one millimeter, far away from you because I’ve just started, so we’re just learning together, and I was taught to teach like this. I cannot make you know I cannot make my own design of Ashtanga Yoga or any other yoga and also I am here to show it as authentic as possible. So, I’d like you to stay for some longer time, but if it’s not yours, if you feel that it’s not time. Then, you can leave, but I will never change my approach”.  

 

Beyond the asanas

 

And so my practice was always, not just Asanas, as we always did, at least 15 minutes of Pranayama. Before then, Asana is about an hour, an hour 15 minutes, and then half hour meditation. So for some people it was late, or it was too long. “I have just one hour so if I go to some gym, I just stand for an hour and then they go, could you please not do this and that?” I said, “No, I’m sorry but you can come whenever you want, but if you want to experience the real yoga, not yoga but the real practice, you have to do everything because this is, you know, in between, and, you know, the Yoga is a continuation of Pranayama, and meditation is the continuation of yoga and vice versa so it’s all related” and you know, and, but those few people who stayed all the time with me. There was just, you know, they were so thankful that they could learn, they said, “I would like to go to India, but it’s too expensive and too far and I cannot speak English or understand English, but we’re so happy that you brought us at least a piece of experience that we never experienced before”. So, and for me, it turned out, you know, it was, I don’t know who benefited more; me from teaching them practices or you know, both. Because I was even when I started to go back to work in the office. In the evenings I did classes, and I was like waiting when the work would finish to go and, and, and teach, you know because this teaching was just sharing, sharing my experience of my feelings. 

 

Lily: 00:29:50

Wow, that’s… I’m kind of speechless. I… It sounds like it was such a transformative experience for you and for your students. I just think it’s very moving that you were able to bring this practice to them, to people who felt like they couldn’t travel or couldn’t speak English well enough or you know couldn’t make that trip that journey that you brought the teachings back to them in such, in such a way that just seems like you were just so vulnerable and so authentic and saying no, I’m not changing anything I’m going to teach you as best as I can as best as I know, but to be firm in that that’s what’s very brave. 

 

Ruta: 00:30:31

Yeah, maybe this is why it was not crowded. In my classes, it was not, it was periods you know like, I was happy about that because I could give much more attention to smaller groups, despite my ego of perfectionist, and with my ex love to be the best, the first, the more successful. I had some lessons and I had some drama, you know, in the first days, but this was the part of the lesson to me. 

 

So when you do teaching, as well as you’re doing anything else in your life. It’s… first of all, lessons to you. But being with yoga, being living yoga, helped me to recognize the lessons. Recognize how I feel, how I would like to feel. But the most important step is changing myself, even. Because you know some people, they say okay, “Why do you need to learn lessons, because you need to learn from, from lessons, a lot, and stop doing that”. I said, “I thought the same before, but now I think we have to get to know ourselves better, and love ourselves”. Who told you that the things that you’re doing are wrong? You know, it’s the same as moving here to Scotland. Only when we received the offer to go for work, for one year, in Scotland. 

 

I remember that passion. And number three, my passion, to go with my husband somewhere abroad to work and to experience life in another country. And they said, “Wow. Two years ago I put this sentence on the piece of paper, and it came without even thinking about it, because I forgot right away about that”. So, and again, and you say, you wanted to do that, and it’s happened, and you cannot refuse it, you cannot say, “no now I don’t want it, said I, you know it’s too complicated, maybe I’m too old or I have” -no, it’s again it’s a flow. So this chance came, and you have to use it, because new lessons will come and new experiences will come. And if you’re a teacher, and you say to stop teaching and go for your life, then you will become empty one day. You have to learn, to teach. You have to experience, to share. And this is how it flows between people in the universe and… and maybe I talk too much…

 

Lily: 00:33:40

No, not at all. I think this is actually really fascinating Ruta, and I’m really grateful that I feel like you’re really just sharing everything. Just so open heartedly all your thoughts and the journey and what you’ve been learning along the way, which I think is incredible about living in the flow, muting your mind. What it’s like to experience perfectionism and the pressures that it causes. I know that I’ve been, that’s one of my things I’ve worked through as well as anxiety and perfectionism, and it’s… it’s, I don’t know they’re just big beasts, big giant animals. 

 

Ruta: 00:34:18

Yeah. 

 

What is yoga to you?

 

Lily: 00:34:20

So, yoga is a… in a whole tradition, all of the Pranayama the breathing, you’re just learning to tap in and slow down the breath and, and just be aware when my breath gets out of control when I start to breeze, way too quickly or I lose track of where my breath even is and start breathing very shallow. It’s just even that small awareness that yoga has taught me has really translated into just better mental health and loving myself and actually accepting kind of and letting things flow through me versus, versus resisting them so much.

 

Yoga nidra as a gift

 

Ruta: 00:34:55

Yeah, and you know all these new practices. For example, like Yoga nidra in Lithuania, even in bigger cities we have yoga studios. Many of them maybe, but when they talk, when they practice yoga nidra, everyone is like, what is that they don’t know? Maybe this is like a hypnosis or something. So it’s a no no you have to try it and so I also needed in Lithuania, because I couldn’t find it in the Dania, and my teacher in Rishikesh, my meditation teacher shared with me a recording. I also have a book about yoga nidra so I have the book written in English from yoga nidra meditation texts. So I went to the music studio and I made a track, like you know, recorded in the professional way. So no bad sounds or not, you know, very clear, relaxing music and my words with echo and so, you know, I was using that as a gift for people so they also guys, you know like for Christmas. And even people who do yoga or practice yoga or know yoga are using this yoga nidra, and they said “Oh some of them were going to sleep with that all the time so we become quiet”. And again, you know people shall know all these tools, you know, yoga is also a tool to rise. If you use everything, then you can live. So this is why, just Asana for me, it’s not full life itself, part of life for your physical body, but later on it came that, you know, I wanted to do my practice; Asana practice, to get into meditation. Because they found that during practice. I can get even deeper into the meditative state than during meditation. 

 

Lily: 00:37:21

Well, I think you’ve answered every question I’ve had, and you even answered them without me asking. I didn’t even have to ask you, tell me about yoga in Lithuania or describe what it’s like to, you know, teach in Lithuania. I think that you really just spoke so eloquently and beautifully and I’m really grateful for the time we spent together Ruta. Thank you. 

 

Ruta: 00:47:42

Thank you, Lily. 

 

How can listeners get in touch with you?

 

Lily: 00:37:44

So if any of our listeners today had any questions about what Ashtanga Yoga is or what yoga nidra is you can find more information on that in the show notes. And if any of our listeners Ruta would like to get in touch with you. How could they do that?

 

 

 

Ruta: 00:38:01

I am on Facebook, Ruta Keriane, just so they can contact me if they want, just to get in touch and talk and maybe ask questions.

 

 

Lily: 00:38:15

Perfect. Thank you. This has been just a beautiful conversation and once again thank you Ruta. 

 

Ruta: 00:38:22

Thank you, Lily. 

 

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

 

 

Lily: 00:38:27

Thank you everyone so much for listening to my conversation with Ruta Keriane from Lithuania. She is so wise and even though she’s new to the practice or newer, you know just been practicing for two years and then immediately opened her own yoga studio after getting trained and had only taken one yoga class before getting trained. I mean her journey is just so fascinating, but the wisdom that she’s acquired through yoga, she really translates to all of her students in Lithuania. So if you have any questions or would like to get in touch, please do so. I’m linking to all her information in the show notes. So, thank you for being with me, I know how busy you are, I know how precious your time is. So thank you once again for tuning in to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. I’ll see you next week. 

 

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Lily: 00:39:25

Remember to hit subscribe so that you never miss an episode and if you feel called, please share this episode with someone that you think could benefit from it. Leaving a review would also be so appreciated. If you’re on social media, I am there to @wildyogatribe, you can tap into all the amazing resources on my website, the wildyogatribe.com, and you can meditate with me on Insight Timer and get your flow on with me on my YouTube channel, where I’ve recorded free yoga classes. If you’d like to schedule a private yoga or meditation class with me or a coaching session, you can find the link to do so, to book in the show notes or on my website, again the wildyogatribe.com. Thank you once again dear listener, for being with me. May your day be light and bright, may you be peaceful and happy, lead on the right path free of suffering and free of sorrow. Be well, dear one. Be well.

 

 

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